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This is Flashback Frank of the Rutherford County Historical Society. Place names in Rutherford County…  We drive down a road or through a tiny community or past a subdivision and think ‘where in the world did THAT name come from?’ The Rutherford County Historical Society mentions more than 100 place names but in the interested of time, let’s cover some of the most popular and unusual of these place names… The Barfield community was named for Frederick Barf ...

This is Flashback Frank of the Rutherford County Historical Society. We’ve all done it; we’ve all wondered where certain names originated.  Names of communities such as Cedar Grove or Almaville or Readyville. The Rutherford County Historical Society mentions more than 100 place names but I have just over two minutes to speak so let’s cover some of the most popular and unusual of these place names… Almaville is said to have been named in 1879 by a general store pr ...

This is Flashback Frank of the Rutherford County Historical Society. Today, we will travel back to the original seat of government for Rutherford County – the old town of Jefferson. Ever wonder where the name ‘Jefferson Pike’ originated? Well, there was once a town, a thriving town, located at the confluence of the east and west forks of the Stones River. The town was named ‘Jefferson’. When Jefferson was laid out in 1802 and 1803, it contained a public square an ...

This is Flashback Frank of the Rutherford County Historical Society. Some of the early public and private schools in Rutherford County had very imaginative descriptive names. Hard Start School was built on a hill on Miller Road near Christiana in 1872. History has failed to explain the name for this school; perhaps “hard start” was meant to be descriptive of the early educational challenges in this rural community in the 1870s. Little Hope School, built in 1894, was an African-Ame ...

Halloween in Rutherford County. Countless stories describe hauntedcemeteries, haunted buildings, haunted landmarks and even ahaunted bridge. If you have visited Cannonsburg Pioneer Village in the heart ofMurfreesboro, Tennessee, you have most likely walked across an old,iron bridge crossing Town Creek near the grist mill. But wait a minute, a haunted bridge at Murfreesboro's CannonsburghPioneer Village? Well, maybe not haunted but a certainly cool storynonetheless. The story - the legend &nda ...